In 1936, Edward G. Ulmer, the expressionist wunderkind and aspiring filmmaker, chanced to meet the beautiful, young wife of a studio executive — boss Carl Laemmle\’s nephew.
Spring erupted with a startling beauty in New York this June, bathing young and old, rich and poor alike in a luxurious halo of sunlight and hope. There\’s more bounce than usual in the shoppers\’ stride, more glee in the schoolchildren\’s shrieks, more color in the dress (and undress) of young lovers strolling the concrete canyons
The Academy for Jewish Religion, a transdenominational rabbinical seminary, will open its doors in Los Angeles this fall, giving formal expression to a longtime trend toward a more personalized, spiritually oriented, pluralistic Judaism, academy founders say.
If you closed your eyes and sat very still, you could almost feel history unfolding last week in Conference Room No. 1 at national United Jewish Appeal headquarters in New York. One of the most broadly representative parliamentary bodies in organized American Jewish life was gathered to vote itself, in effect, out of existence.
American Jews woke up in a different country today, now that \”Seinfeld\” signed off.\n
Henry Bondi, a Princeton, N.J., biochemical engineer, has spent much of his adult life chasing after a painting that he says Nazis stole from his aunt. Now, at 76, he\’s finally getting close.
On a chilly autumn morning in late October, in a rooftop sukkahatop New York\’s Abraham Joshua Heschel School, a small group ofrabbis, Hebrew teachers and millionaire investors joined hands tomark what their leader called a \”defining point in American Jewishphilanthropy\”: an $18 million fund to help create new Jewish dayschools around the country, paid for by a \”partnership\” among a dozenof America\’s richest Jewish families.
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